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or come to a show!
We are open for NEW ACTS at reasonable share-the-ticket-sales or by the hour. If you've got a performance or musical group, a class to teach, wedding, reception or get-together -- Call 520 622-6973 and talk to Rosemary!

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August 2014:

The Red Barn Theatre COMPANY has moved! The RBTC, which excelled at Broadway shows has changed its name to The Community Players, moved to their own building at 1881 N. Oracle Rd which will have more room for stage, dressing rooms and LOTS of storage for costumes and furniture. www.communityplayerstucson.org/.

July 11, 2015
----2pm: Americana Musical Review
by the Children's Drama Group
Patriotic Songs and Songs about the States

---7pm: Rosemary in Concert with piano, fiddle, jokes and song

Musical Revues:
All with lively song, dance, sing-a-longs and jokes with piano and fiddle with the Barnstorm Players or the Children's Drama Group, or both!
--May 23, 7pm: Spring has Sprung!

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Saturday June 6, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Rosemary plays music at
The Valley of the Moon

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Monday, May 1, 2 & 8 at 7pm, and May 9 at 2pm
"Kiss the Blarney Stone"
When a cranky curmudgeon decides disproving the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is a win-win situation, he must endure impish underground elves, carnivorous trees and beautiful Irish music before finding true treasure.
Full of your favorite Irish songs ("When Irish Eyes are Smiling", "Oh, Danny Boy", "Mother MaCree") humor and impish adventure, under the rainbow and underground!
$5

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2015 Musical Revues:
All with lively song, dance, sing-a-longs and jokes with piano and fiddle with the Barnstorm Players and the Children's Drama Group
--April 25, 2pm: Spring Has Sprung!

Sat. Jan. 24, 2015, 2pm "New Beginnings Musical Revue"
This new year has to be better, right? Come hear our musical group of optimists celebrate yet another chance to get it right with song, dance, fiddle, trombone, puppetry and jokes.

HISTORY: "Elfin Antics in Santa's Workshop," by Rosemary Snow, is an internationally performed play, set to perform in Bogota, Columbia; and Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka, December of 2014,
and already performed December 2013 in Ballymanus, Ireland, and Joundalup, Western Australia, as well as the U.S.
It is marketed by Rosemary's daughter Jeannette Jaquish at www.theaterfunscripts.com.

Saturday, September 27, 2pm
Goodbye, Summer! Musical Revue
A nostalgic musical tour of all the joys of summer performed by the Barnstorm Players, in song, piano, trombone, fiddle, and sing-a-longs, plus jokes and refreshments.
$5 - cash or check only, please.
Or Order Online.

In this touching love story a British officer is enchanted by a beautiful Hindi young maiden but their union is torn apart by their opposing cultures, and the oppression of British colonization.
Actors at 14 and up are sought.
Besides the CHORUS of many singers and character actors,
these LEADS are sought:
FEMALESs: Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano
MALES: Baritone and Tenor
PERFORMANCES are Friday and Saturday, October 24 & 25, and Saturday, Nov. 1, all at 7pm.
REHEARSALS will depend on actors' schedules, so BRING A LIST OF ALL YOUR SCHEDULE CONFLICTS from Aug. 21 to Nov. 1.
TECH CREW also needed!
Please call Rosemary at 520 622-6973 if you have questions.

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Sunday, July 27, 7pm

The Polynesian Paradise Dancers!

"Hawaiian Holiday!"

A delightful vacation romp to various Hawaiian locations and adventures.
Sun. July 27, 2014, at 7pm

The Polynesian Paradise Dancers want to take you on an enchanting vacation to the South Pacfic. This vibrant performance of exotic hula dancing and heart pounding drum beats of the islands includes audience interaction and many aspects of the 1959 South Pacific culture.
This production is presented by the International touring company the Polynesian Paradise Dancers. This amazing group has toured throughout the world and is known for unique and exciting performances.
This hula show is filled with authentic costumes and beautiful dancers.

The year is 1959, and Hawaii has just joined the union. The new direct flights from the Mainland to the islands have opened up the Hawaiian experience to a whole new generation.

Past performances include a daily 5-week run of the “Lilo & Stitch Hawaiian Party” at the El Capitan Theatre (Hollywood, CA) and nightly 8-week run at the Pageant of the Masters (Laguna Beach, CA). PPD has also performed for the celebrity premieres of Disney’s animated feature Lilo & Stitch (first in Hollywood, CA then at Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis, TN), as well as Adam Sandler’s 50 First Dates in Westwood, CA. Polynesian Paradise Dancers can also be seen dancing in Adam Sandler’s movie Bedtime Stories, and television shows as Backyard Nation, Tuckerville, My Tacky Room and Wizards of Waverly Place. Other highlights include performances at the Playboy Mansion, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Studios, the homes of celebrities such as Rob Zombie, former mayor of Los Angeles, Jim Hahn, and former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Established in 1993, Akemi Welsh started the Polynesian Paradise Dancers (PPD), a professional Polynesian entertainment company specializing in the traditional dances of music from the Polynesian Islands. Over the years, the company has had the honor of sharing the culture with audiences all over. They have visited 31 states, and had 10 international tours including Abu Dhabi, China, Japan, Guam, and the Marshall Islands.

Shipwrecked in the coastal resort town of Illyria, Viola must disguise herself as a man to get a job with the town mover-and-shaker, Orsino. Viola - now "Cesario" - is tasked with delivering love messages from Orsino to the beautiful and standoffish Olivia, but this is where it gets complicated: Viola is falling for Orsino - who still thinks she's a man - and Olivia seems to be taking a fancy to Orsino's cute young messenger Cesario...uh-oh. Throw in Olivia's clever maid Maria and drunken uncle Toby, who play a prank on Olivia's stick-in-the-mud adviser, Malvolio, and you have a wild, wacky comedy as only Shakespeare can think up!

Tickets are $16 General Admission
$13 for Students / Seniors / Military
All tickets are $10 on Fridays

Tickets can be purchased at the door, or reserved by calling (520) 887-6239

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July 25, 2014, 2pm
Americana Musical Revue
Patriotic songs, jokes, stories and sing-a-longs for the whole family. Performed by the Barnstorm Players with trombone, piano, fiddle and voice, with a little dancing on the side.
Fundraiser!
Refreshments afterwards!

At the Red Barn Theater - 520 622-6973.
TICKETS: $5 for all ages.

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Saturday, June 28, 2014, 2pm
June June June! Musical Revue
Celebrate summer's sultry sassy sounds in this variety show of music, songs, sing-a-longs, trombone, fiddle and jokes, followed by refreshments.
$5 -- please pay with cash or check at the theater

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Saturday, May 24th, 2pm
"Mother, May I?" Musical Revue
Lots of great singin, trombone and fiddle playing,
sing-a-longs, jokes and stories,
followed by refreshments.
Great family fun.

$5 cash or check please.

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May 9-25"Light Up the Sky"
written by Moss Hart
directed by Vince Flynn

PERFORMANCES:May 9-25, 2014
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2pm.
TICKETS: General admission: $16
Students, seniors and military: $13
All tickets on Friday are $10.

May 10, 2014
“Your Mother and Mine -- A Rollicking Revue”
of sweet and amusing music, quotes, jokes and sing-a-longs about moms.
Performed by the Barnstorm Players at the Red Barn Theater. Refreshments served.

Saturday, May 10, at 2pm
948 N. Main Ave.
260-622-6973.
FREE!

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April 25-27, May 2-4, 2014

Two Sci-Fi Twist-Ending Dark Comedies, by J.R. Jaquish,
directed by Maureen RobinsonWorkshop Presentation: "Three Moons, Two Suns, One Conjunction" -- rated PG
Welcoming your FEEDBACK as we work out the bugs in this new script!
- Marooned on a brutal planet infested with poisonous, slithering, vile creatures during a bloody war on Earth, the surviving male bio-nauts receive notice that a cruel Dictator has won, and he and his beautiful teenage daughter will make a personal inspection, that day. . . and then it gets worse.
Rated PG for violence and sensuality.

"Curse that alien technology! What kind of twisted dysfunctional science bypasses the speed of light -- a perfectly reasonable limitation? And why'd they leave it lying around? Humans can't be trusted with sticks and stones, but now the most narcissistic tyrant in history has faster than light travel, life extension and who knows what alien weaponry!"
Friday & Saturday at 7pm, Sunday at 2pm. Red Barn Theater Tucson - 520 622-6973

PERFORMANCES are April 25-27, and May 2-4
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00pm, and Sundays at 2pm.

- A wife drags her husband in for marriage counseling not realizing that his worsening grabbiness, hygiene abandonment and language deterioration is not just the low end of male behavior. Rated PG for adult topics.

The teenage bloodline daughter of the Dictator of the United Colonies of Earth threateningly toys with the marooned bio-nauts, as her Governess gives them the evil eye. From L to R: Haley Roten, Jasmin Pratt, Jason Schutte, Gary Bear and Tim Foran.

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May 10, 2014
“Your Mother and Mine -- A Rollicking Revue”
of sweet and amusing music, quotes, jokes and sing-a-longs about moms.
Performed by the Barnstorm Players at the Red Barn Theater. Refreshments served.

Saturday, May 10, at 2pm
948 N. Main Ave.
260-622-6973.
FREE!

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April 26, 2pm"The Sky is the Limit" Musical Revue
a song and humor variety show about the Sun, Moon, stars and all that is up there,performed by the Barnstorm Players
directed by Rosemary Snow

PERFORMANCES:Saturday, April 26 at 2pm
Tickets: $5

520 622-6973

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Saturday, March 29, 2pm
"My Wild Irish Revue",
a performance of Celtic, Welsh, Irish and Scottish music, song and sing-a-longs, with trombone, fiddle and piano, followed by a meal of GREEN FOOD
performs
Saturday, March 29, at 2pm
at the Red Barn Theater
948 N. Main Ave.
Tickets: $5 Click to Order with your Credit Card on Paypal520 622-6973

AUDITIONS for Sci-Fi Twist Ending Show
March 14, 4-6pm
and March 15, 10am to noon
at the Red Barn Theater, 948 N. Main Ave.

Two PG-rated Sci-Fi Twist-Ending Comedies written by J.R. Jaquish, performed by Comedy Asylum:

"Collecting All the Species"
- Marooned on a distant planet because of a bloody war on Earth, three desperate male bio-nauts receive notice that the new World Dictator and his beautiful teenage daughter will make a personal inspection, that day.
--Need three males age 25-60, one male age 16-22, one attractive female age 18 to 20 but playing 16 or 17, one mature female with military-governess bearing, and 4 actors of any age to play dog-monkey like creatures with the warning that this is rated PG for violence and sexual situations.

"You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore"
- A wife drags her husband in for counseling not realizing that his increasingly grabby, crude behavior is due to him becoming a zombie.

--Need adult males and females, and six bit parts with the warning that this is rated PG for mild discussion of passion in marriage, and a stronger PG for the accompanying play.

REHEARSALS are Saturdays, noon to 3pm, mostly for "Collecting" which is the longer play.
PERFORMANCES are April 25-27, and May 2-5, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, and Sundays at 2pm.
*** Bring a list of your schedule conflicts.
*** Minor actors' parents must sign a release.

Call Maureen at 272-9314 or go to http://redbarn-theater.angelfire.com with questions or to get scene excerpts.

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Performing Feb 20 to March 2, 2014

"That girl! She could be a magician's assistant the way she can disappear!" -- Auntie Em

The Wizard of Oz - A New Musical!
- Tickets: $8, $10, $12 - LAST WEEKEND!
Sweet and stubborn, Dorothy and Toto find trouble wherever they go and now mean ol' Miss Gully has a court order decreeing that "Toto must be destroyed!"
In a panic, Dorothy makes a rash decision to run away -- right into a tornado that rips through the theater and whisks Dorothy to a strange land of singing little people, bratty flying Monkeys, monsters in dark and dangerous forests, a tricky Wizard, naive Emerald Citizens, and a furious witch who wants those ruby slippers more than ANYTHING! Dorothy's new friends, Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, do their bumbling best to protect her on her quest for Home Sweet Home.
This witty new play by Jeannette Jaquish, former Tucsonan of 20 years, has performed around the world and comes to Tucson for the first time. Over 25 Tucsonans age 6 to 66 perform. Come see this enhanced familiar story with exquisite music performed up close.

Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 2pm
A music, dance and fiddling celebration:
Conga in the Congo
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Children from "Congo Prayer" will perform song and dances from the show.
Other music performed by the Barnstorm Players including Rosemary on fiddle.
Tickets: $5
Call Rosemary at (520) 622-6973 for more information.

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Monday, January 6, 2014 at 6pm
CALLING YOUNG ACTORS to join the cast of
Congo Prayer
~ an Adventure!
Need actors age 5 to 15 with lots of enthusiasm!
Rehearsals are Mondays and Fridays, 6 to 7pm.
Performances are end of February, plus a performance at Bookman's.
Call Rosemary at (520) 622-6973 for more information.

The Red Barn Theater actually began around 1992 when Rosemary Snow purchased the building at 948 N. Main, Tucson, AZ 85705.

Hundreds of shows later, we began this website, and this page of past shows. So there are a lot missing.

Director Rosemary Snow is a mother of 4 grown children and has 18 grandchildren. She worked as a public school music teacher for many years, then devoted herself to giving private music lessons, always hankering for a place to put on public performances.

When the old vacant "STOP" bar near her home went on sale, she took her savings and bought it, renamed it the Red Barn Theater and began music performances.

Her daughter Jeannette Jaquish wrote four theater scripts that debuted at the Red Barn. As well, Rosemary began writing and performing her own original musicals, full of song, dance and jokes.

Around the year 2000, the Red Barn Theater Company, a separate performing group, began rent/sharing the space with Rosemary's productions, doing Broadway style productions.

Theater is a risky field, full of expenses, and subject to the whims of volunteer actors and crew and competing entertainment. The Red Barn struggles on and appreciates your attendance at its shows.